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US special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell
Mitchell Ends Mideast Peace Mission, No Breakthrough
U.S. envoy George Mitchell says he will return again next week
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SLIDE SHOW After Silom Explodes, Murmurs of a Compromise in Bangkok |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| Does the brief lull in violence signal an end to Thailand's political crisis, or are sides buying time before another showdown? |
Winning the War Against Malaria |
| By ALEX ELLGEE |
| The Irrawaddy visits malaria clinics on the Thai-Burmese border where the disease has been reduced by 90 percent over the past 20 years. |
Karen Peace Council Rejects BGF Proposal |
| By ALEX ELLGEE |
| The Karen Peace Council rejects the Burmese junta's border guard force proposal after meeting with Lt-Gen Ye Myint. |
Ethnic Rebel Groups Defy Junta’s Order |
| By MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR |
| Burma’s military regime is facing a formidable challenge from ethnic rebel groups that are refusing to kowtow to its order that they join the country’s army as border guard forces. |
Weekly Business Roundup (April 24, 2010) |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| India’s National Hydro Power Company (NHPC) is looking at increasing its involvement in hydroelectric dam projects in Burma with a spending budget of more than US $5 billion. |
Burma accepts first election parties
Two parties with alleged close ties to the ruling junta become first of 19 parties to be accepted onto next stage of election registration process
$1000 offered to catch Rangoon bomber
Reward offered despite Burmese media already pointing the blame at opposition groups for alleged grenade attacks that killed 10
Irrawaddy water shortage fuelling disease
Water shortage problem compounded by polluted rivers and the termination of water-purification supplies from aid groups Police hold 7 youths amid post-blast crackdownSeven suspected "activists" in their 20s and 30s have been arrested in central Rangoon ...NLD youth leaders gear up for post May 6 days
Gearing up for activities after the junta’s deadline to register as a political party expires on ...UDP said junta-backed parties will be the main rivals
The junta-backed parties will be the main rivals of the Union Democracy Party ...
ေတာင္ပိုင္း ၀ ျပည္သူမ်ား တိုက္ပြဲသတင္းႏွင့္ပါတ္သက္၍ စိုးရိမ္ထိပ္လန္႕ေ႐ွာင္တိမ္းေနခ်ိန္ ၀ တပ္ဖြဲ႕အား သွ်မ္းျပည္ တပ္မေတာ္တပ္ဖြဲ႕ဟုဆိုကာ နအဖဘက္မွ တိုက္ပြဲႏွစ္ႀကိမ္ စတင္တိုက္ခိုက္သည္ဟု စံုစမ္းသိ႐ွိရ ပါသည္။
“အရင္ကဆိုရင္ နအဖက သူတို႔ဟန္ျပခြဲၿပီး ျပည္ပ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြကို အျပစ္ ပံုခ်ေနက်ဗ်။ အခုေတာ့ သူ႔ေဒါက္တုိက္ေတြကို ထိကုန္လို႔လားမသိဘူး၊ နအဖကိုယ္တိုင္ ဆုေတာ္ေငြေတြ ထုတ္ၿပီး တရားခံကို အပူတျပင္း ရွာေနတယ္တဲ့ဗ်။ သူတို႔ ေတာ္ေတာ္အထိနာသြားပံုရတယ္ ...” 
